title: Editorial comment. Perioperative mortality is significantly greater in septuagenarian and octogenarian patients treated with radical cystectomy for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.
authors.forename: Sherri Machele
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Donat
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D002423:Cause of Death; D015653:Cystectomy / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk; D018426:SEER Program; D015996:Survival Rate; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*